One of my first on-street purchases was roasted chestnuts. According to my host family, you can also eat them raw, but they taste like a bitter raw nut, and are much better once they've been roasted. My school party also served them boiled, which basically tasted the same as roasted, except the shell was harder to crack open. And it's tough enough anyway to do it without smashing the chestnut inside and making it impossible to get out. Today I finally snapped a shot of the lady at the corner fruit stand roasting them. As per uzh, they go in a oversized tilty wok filled with hot black sand and are shoveled around until they are ready. They smell amazing. Sweet and smoky.
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